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Published: October 21st 2008
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Last evening, (how could I forget?) we drove into Biddeford to look for the car shop and saw the huge textile mill buildings. There is a church on every other corner! When we were traveling through Nebraska, the history of each town mentioned all the saloons they once had on every corner. Quite different here! Now we know why the young and the restless went West in the first place! There were beautiful old houses that were built by shipbuilders and mill owners. On our way back, we passed a hair salon called, "Curl Up And Dye". 😊 As we drove through Kennebunk, Nancy had to call her sister, Carol, because her husband's family comes from Maine and they have a house in Kennebunk. Carol gave us the number of Art's cousin. We called and asked for a suggestion for dinner. Paul gave us directions for two great possibilities. We drove out to Two Lights. There are two identical lighthouses, one a little bit inland from the other on Cape Elizabeth. They used to be working at the same time and that was their lighthouse signature, but the government decided, at some point, that only one light could operate at each
lighthouse area, so now only the one on the point is operating. There was a little Lobster place right there, so we went up to look at the ocean from the point. Then we went to a resaurant called The Good Table for our Maine lobster dinner. Rich had the whole lobster dinner. Nancy had a yummy lobster roll, basically a lobster sandwich on a roll. Oh, we were so full and our tummies were happy!
Then, this morning, Rich took the truck to the shop at 7:30 and got a ride back. We went to the campground's breakfast! We had Maine blueberry pancakes and Vermont maple syrup. Oh man, were they good! In this campground and some others, people can actually buy a space and leave their RV there like a summer cabin. They decorate the little space with plants and statues and birdhouses and flagholders. Some have decks and a little shed for their lawn furniture and barbeque. Some even have built-in stone or brick barbeques. We had a relaxing day waiting for the truck to get fixed.
This is Rich. I just wanted to share one of my concerns about Nancy enjoying her retirement. The other day, I read an article about doing dishes in an RV. It contained tips about how to minimize your water usage, etc. I carefully explained it to Nancy. She couldn't understand how it worked, so I showed her by washing the dinner dishes. The next night, she still did not understand. I showed her again. I fear she is getting a slowness of the mind, because, I have now demonstrated it 12 times and she still asks questions and I have to do it again. Old age? Around 1:30, the truck was done and they came back to get Rich. They said they had needed to adjust the computer because we have an after-market exhaust, and they had to fix an axle leak. Good grief!
We decided to go out to the lighthouse again to take pictures since it was dusk last evening when we were out there. On the way, we noticed that some of the red stoplights have a white strobe light line in the middle of them. They are for stormy and foggy days, so you can still see the lights! The streets still have stone curbs even partway down the highway and in the median. Stone must be cheaper than concrete here. By the ocean the air is so clean! No wonder they call air fresheners names like "Seabreeze" and "Ocean Fresh". Back at the Lobster Shack, Nancy asked how many lobsters they served in a day. They said it was about 150 per day for the 7 months that they are open. That's about 13, 500 lobsters in a year and that's only one little place! How many lobsters ARE there out there? The internet said that the Maine lobster catch in a year is about 66,000,000 pounds. How can they keep that up? A lobster lays about 70,000 eggs a year and of those only about 10 survive. Then, the lobster has to live to be about seven before it's big enough to be "harvested". Maine has a good reputation for its fisheries magement, but doesn't it boggle the mind????? So Nancy looked up chickens on the internet. As a contrast, chickens are eaten when they are only 13 weeks old. The average American eats 86 pounds of chicken per year. 8.9 BILLION birds are killed and eaten in a year. Holy moly!
We left the lighthouses and the lobsters and headed to Portland. We saw strawberry fields (forever) and lettuce. (No corn!) Portland is a pretty city, not too big.
We drove near the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow house, but we didn't see it.
We slept peacefully, remembering lobster dinners and lighthouses.
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